Posted on 10/14/2015 8:25:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
We've been waiting for the media attacks on Ben Carson to begin. To this point he'd been (relatively) untouched: He wasn't viewed as a credible threat. But his numbers aren't receding. They're growing. So he's now in the crosshairs.
The "news" networks have spent several days manufacturing outrage over Carson, saying that if he were in a mass-shooting situation, he would want to fight back. "I would not just stand there and let him shoot me."
It didn't matter how many millions of sensible Americans -- especially males -- would have that same thought. Experts insist distracting the shooter by taking action, like throwing things, can help save lives. Indeed, shortly after 9/11 we were visiting with an airline security expert who stated, emphatically, that in a similar situation the impulse must be to attack the attacker, no matter how hopeless it might appear.
Instead, the networks seized on how Carson was insulting shooting victims as being too passive -- an aggressively biased take.
On NBC's "Today," news anchor Natalie Morales had the vapors: "It's beyond insensitive. It's hard to hear that." Co-host Willie Geist huffed, "But my goodness, who would ever second-guess people in that situation?"
Meanwhile, the 70-something politicians running on the Democrat side can apparently say all kinds of hypernegative things and expect the "objective" media to ignore them. After all, isn't it just scientifically verifiable that conservatives are evil?
For example, at a surprise appearance at a Latino PAC's fundraiser on Oct. 6, Vice President Joe Biden uncorked on Donald Trump and the other GOP hopefuls. Latinos were hanging their heads, he said. "People walked in like literally down because of the beating, the beating Hispanics are taking at the hands of the Republican caucus -- I mean the Republican presidential race." The American people, Biden said, are "so, so, so much different than these guys who are appealing to everything from homophobia to this notion of the ... Know-Nothing Party of the late 1800s."
Network TV coverage? Nothing. (The Know-Nothing Party only flourished in the 1840s and 1850s, but who expected Biden to get an A in History -- or even pass?)
On the very same day, Hillary Clinton smeared the National Rifle Association at an Iowa town hall. "You know, the NRA's position reminds me of negotiating with the Iranians or the communists," she said. "The NRA tries to keep gun owners -- the ones who are members -- really upset all the time so they can keep collecting their money, because they tell them they're the only thing that's going to stop the black helicopters from landing in the front yard and people's guns being seized."
James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal quipped: "If the NRA is like 'the Iranians or the communists,' does she recommend the same negotiating strategy the administration has employed with them -- i.e., make concession after concession, then declare a diplomatic triumph?"
Again, the network coverage: zero.
On Oct. 10, President Obama spoke to donors in Hollywood about the Republicans in the House and in the presidential race that the "politics of fear ... can express itself in anti-immigration rhetoric. It can express itself in hunkering back on the need to take care of folks who are vulnerable ... It can express itself in sort of cheap jingoism and militarism and nationalism that's not grounded in our national security interests. But it's a dangerous path."
This is apparently dime-a-dozen liberal arrogance from Obama. So it's not news. Our media distort the picture so only the Republicans are ideological and refuse to compromise, which completely avoids Obama's second-term "executive action" trench warfare.
As usual, one of the media's most obvious demonstrations of favoritism is defining what is a damaging, disgraceful gaffe. Liberals -- even Joe Biden! -- just can't seem to be guilty of one.
He went to Ferguson...and said he would NEVER have shot the 300 lb black thug....but he would have charged the Oregon dude???
Then there's his story about a holdup in a store...The crook poked a gun in his side....and Carson said...."I think you want him" (the store clerk.) That was heroic!!
I Like Dr Carson and I am sure many do to, but I have no intention of voting for him because I think he would make an excellent Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Ever since you started pushing this attack line, I have been searching for documentation to back up your claim. What is your source for this claim?
If Carson can’t stand the heat then maybe he should find something else to do with his time?
“You know, the NRA’s position reminds me of negotiating with the Iranians or the communists,”
-—>Hitlery should know. These are some of the big donors to the Clinton Foundation. More hypocrisy and deception.
“The NRA tries to keep gun owners — the ones who are members — really upset all the time so they can keep collecting their money, because they tell them they’re the only thing that’s going to stop the black helicopters from landing in the front yard and people’s guns being seized.”
——> Yes Hitlery. That is exactly what the Second Amendment is all about. Read it. If Hitlery (and Obama, et al) could have their way, that is exactly the way it would go.
...”If Carson can’t stand the heat then maybe he should find something else to do with his time?”...
Oh, I believe Dr. Carson is standing your heat quite well. Every time your comrades attack him, his numbers go up and the money comes in. And, by the way, not from the rich dictators, either. Dr. Ben Carson is “high culture,” not the low-life, corrupt culture we hear and see all the time from the media. Anyone and I mean ANYONE who has had a middle school history class knows that Dr. Carson speaks from reality and truth, not from the made up narratives and talking points of those who would enslave each and every American today if they thought they would get away with it. And, those of you who are trying to degrade this gift of a man will not love your situation once the dictators take over. When they are finished with you and your support you will be thrown under the bus with the rest of the unlearned who enabled the plans of the corrupt to turn this country into a place of tyranny.
THIS is my problem with Carson:
“Is it moral for us, for example, to take advantage of cheap labor from illegal immigrants while denying them citizenship? I’m sure you can tell from the way I phrased the question that I believe we have taken the moral low road on this issue. Some segments of our economy would virtually collapse without these undocumented workers—we all know that—yet we continue to harass and deport many individuals who are simply seeking a better life for themselves and their families.”
Our number one issue this election is illegal immigration. We Must get serious about regaining the sovereignty of this country. Carson is Not the guy to do that.
Thanks for the link. Please see Post 9 and keep up the good work!
(Well, after all, us Repugs don wanna be called RAY-cess. Heaven forbid!) To H*ll with the economy,foreign policy and Muzzies taking over and killing us all!
Carson's got nothing! (except a rep for being a 'nice guy' and cracking cute little jokes.) He's got NOTHING. Just another weak RINO
What's he gonna do with ISiS? Tell them cute little jokes and beg them 'please don't slaughter any more Christians. Pretty please, with sugar on it'?
We need a strong, brilliant steam roller like Trump to go in to Washington, slap down the sorry RINOs, deal with the muzzies (before they take over and kill us all) and clean up the mess Omuslim has made that has almost destroyed America and our way of life. We need someone to make America respected again- great again!!
I'd go for a Trump/Allen West ticket- but CARSON IS NO ALLEN WEST!!
Shut up Carson and drop out
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